no budget?? how come? how many linux ad servers are out there? would the owners mind slipping a "Linux NOW!: get your OS for free for ever!" ad into one of a thousand or more rotating banners? that doesnt even come down to 1/1000 % of his revenue. What about sites running on linux? they already have buttons on the bottom of their home page saying linux, apache, php, mysql, etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 2:29 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Open source hits back? > yeah, I agree, we don't want to get involved in this sort of thing... > > However, we don't have the M$ advertising budget,,, the open source comunity > needs to start a centralised "awareness" > campaign,,, think of ways we can get the good word out there about just how > good the software is... > > we have several things to lure people in. > > 1. a FREE Operating system if one choses to get it that way, and very cheap > if they want to buy it. > 2. Shitloads of FREE applications for nearly everything. > 3. Support from some huge companies like IBM. > 4. Unparalled stability when compared to any winblows version. > 5. Unmatched web exposure with Apache. > 6. Free Programming languages like perl. > 7. A performance Gap has appeared in some areas with Linux and its growing. > > There are more too, but you get the idea... > > > The more people we all make aware of this, the more things will change, the > only reasons MS FUD and other tactics work, is because people don't know any > better and generally won't go out of their way to find out. > > If everyone on linux lists convinced two other people of its benefits and > unbeatable TOC... the number of "informed" people would grow at an > unparalled rate... > > just my thoughts... but I really think Mandrake/Suse/Redhat/Caldera and all > the others (possibly even IBM and similiar) need to have a big meeting and > work out ways to Advertise "the good word" the open source way.... > > All of those companies together still don't have the power of MS in > advertising and FUD and Lawyers... but they certainly have alot more then > any one of them alone.. > > And its in their best interests,, the more people that know, the more copies > they will sell... > > Also, it will benefit all of them because people who get a start on linux > usually end up trying several different Distro's... > > I did it myself, Slackware, Caldera then Redhat and finally Mandrake, which > I am sticking with... it does the job nicely, > its easy to setup for the most part, and its as up to date or more so then > the other distros... > > I still use windows sometimes, > > but I don't use it exclusively and will slowly phazing it out,,, for one > thing, M$ will never get a cent out of me for XP... > > One last thought, if all the distros put more of a contribution (more time > and programming expertise then money..) into WINE, and get it to the point > that it can run nearly any software, (preferably even the ones that M$ has > used their nasty tactics to make difficult...) > Then windows wouldn't have a leg left to stand on... particularly if WINE > became intelligent enough to run as a background process and detect win32 > apps automagically... > > > rgds > > Frank > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 10 September 2001 8:18 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Open source hits back? > > > i just read this article and i am incredible disturbed by what i read. > Either > this guy (the one who wrote this article) is unbelievable stupid or he's a > paid MS crony. Basically, what he's suggesting is to bark back at the dog > that > barks at you. Figure that one out!! > > --------------- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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